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Incredible Tretchikoff : life of an artist and adventurer

Coinciding with the centenary of his birth, 'Incredible Tretchikoff' tells the enthralling story of this flamboyant artist from his humble beginnings to the spectacular highs and lows of his later career. We hear thrilling accounts of his early years as a Russian orphan in Manchuria and his efforts to make his way as a young man in a strange land. In Singapore in the 1930s, he was accepted into the social elite and his art became talk of the town. Meanwhile, he secretly worked for the British Ministry of Information producing anti-Axis propaganda. But his high living was brought to an abrupt end by the war. He was nearly killed when the Japanese sank the boat on which he was trying to escape; taken prisoner, he was forced to use his artistic skills for the enemy. Accused by his captors of being a spy, he somehow survived, and was eventually reunited with his wife and daughter in Cape Town after the war. Within years, through sheer determination and despite the hostility of the local art community, Tretchikoff had become South Africa's best-selling artist.Read more...

Machine generated contents note: Who is Mr Tretchikoff? --
boy from Siberia --
In China's Russian town --
Alone in the eastern Babylon --
Russian community's big hope --
High living and low thinking in Singapore --
Divers in New York, Snow White in Malaya --
Boosting morale at the Island Fortress --
Journey into the unknown --
Five hundred miles in a lifeboat --
Getting by in Java --
painter, at last! --
Indonesian artist? --
Interview with a ghost --
Good hope at the Cape --
Tretchikoff goes West --
Those famous Chinese ladies --
When the flowers cry --
Stardom --
Britain and beyond --
Tretchi and Tretchikoff --
Imagining Bali --
Politically suspect --
African glamour --
Loner --
As naff as you could get --
His last stand --
Back with a bang --
Through the eyes of others.

Responsibility:

Boris Gorelik.

Abstract:

For two decades he was the most famous painter in the world. Millions of people in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa flocked to see and buy his exotic pictures. Vladimir Tretchikoff was the first popstar artist. He lived a life as colourful as his instantly recognizable paintings. This book tells his story.Read more...